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Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Science and Survival written by Barry Commoner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Egan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262262657
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival written by Michael Egan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the activist career of Barry Commoner, one of the most influential American environmental thinkers, and his role in recasting the environmental movement after World War II. For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of "the emerging science of survival." In Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival, Michael Egan examines Commoner's social and scientific activism and charts an important shift in American environmental values since World War II.Throughout his career, Commoner believed that scientists had a social responsibility, and that one of their most important obligations was to provide citizens with accessible scientific information so they could be included in public debates that concerned them. Egan shows how Commoner moved naturally from calling attention to the hazards of nuclear fallout to raising public awareness of the environmental dangers posed by the petrochemical industry. He argues that Commoner's belief in the importance of dissent, the dissemination of scientific information, and the need for citizen empowerment were critical planks in the remaking of American environmentalism. Commoner's activist career can be defined as an attempt to weave together a larger vision of social justice. Since the 1960s, he has called attention to parallels between the environmental, civil rights, labor, and peace movements, and connected environmental decline with poverty, injustice, exploitation, and war, arguing that the root cause of environmental problems was the American economic system and its manifestations. He was instrumental in pointing out that there was a direct association between socioeconomic standing and exposure to environmental pollutants and that economics, not social responsibility, was guiding technological decision making. Egan argues that careful study of Commoner's career could help reinvigorate the contemporary environmental movement at a point when the environmental stakes have never been so high.
Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science and Survival written by Barry Commoner and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Egan, Michael
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival [microform] written by Egan, Michael and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565840126
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Making Peace with the Planet written by Barry Commoner and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the public and private sector's attempts to address environmental problems and explains why they have not worked.
Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486837467
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Closing Circle written by Barry Commoner and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May be the best book on ecology ever written." -- Michael Crichton, The New York Times. Radical 1971 argument about the root causes of climate change remains a must-read for environmentalists.
Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101875933
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Poverty of Power written by Barry Commoner and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the last ten years, the United States—the most powerful and technically advanced society in human history—has been confronted by a series of ominous, seemingly intractable crises. First there was the threat to the environmental survival; then there was the apparent shortage of energy: and now there is the unexpected decline of the economy. These are usually regarded as separate afflictions, each to be solved in its own terms: environmental degradation by pollution controls; the energy crisis by finding new sources of energy and new ways of conserving it; the economic crisis by manipulating prices, taxes, and interest rates. But each effort to solve one crisis seems to clash with the solution of the others—pollution control reduces energy supplies; energy conservation jobs. Inevitably, proponents of one solution become opponents of the others. Policy stagnates and remedial action is paralyzed, adding to the confusion and gloom that beset the country." So opens Barry Commoner's The Poverty of Power, the book in which America's great biologist and environmentalist addresses himself to the central question of our day. He concludes that "what confronts us is not a series of separate crises, but a single basic deficit—a fault that lies deep in the design of modern society. This book is an effort to unearth that fault, to trace its relation to the separate crises, and to consider what can be done to correct it at its root."
Author : Michael Egan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135276803
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Natural Protest written by Michael Egan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. Natural Protest is the first collection of original essays to offer a cohesive social and political examination of environmental awareness, activism, and justice throughout American history. Editors Michael Egan and Jeff Crane have selected the finest new scholarship in the field, establishing this complex and fascinating subject firmly at the forefront of American historical study. Focused and thought-provoking, Natural Protest presents a cutting-edge perspective on American environmentalism and environmental history, providing an invaluable resource for anyone concerned about the ecological fate of the world around us.
Author : Barry Commoner
Publisher : London : Cape
ISBN 13 : 9780224006446
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Closing Circle written by Barry Commoner and published by London : Cape. This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340173
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Pugwash scientists established a role in conflict moderation, what held this project together and how state actors in East and West perceived their efforts, complicating existing narratives about “Pugwash” and challenging notions about the naivety of scientists.
Author : John Maddox
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Doomsday Syndrome written by John Maddox and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is editor of the scientific journal Nature and discusses all the fashionable topics which bring forth today's "prophets of doom". Without minimising these dangers he warns against the greater dangers of unbridled pessimism and offers us some hope.
Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262263947
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book America as Second Creation written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land. After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation. While mainstream Americans constructed technological foundation stories to explain their place in the New World, however, marginalized groups told other stories of destruction and loss. Native Americans protested the loss of their forests, fishermen resisted the construction of dams, and early environmentalists feared the exhaustionof resources. A water mill could be viewed as the kernel of a new community or as a new way to exploit labor. If passengers comprehended railways as part of a larger narrative about American expansion and progress, many farmers attacked railroad land grants. To explore these contradictions, Nye devotes alternating chapters to narratives of second creation and to narratives of those who rejected it.Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without ever erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness.
Author : Jerome R. Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159841
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems written by Jerome R. Ravetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.
Author : David Macauley
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572300590
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Minding Nature written by David Macauley and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-03-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the works of some of the most influential Western philosophers of ecology, tracing their influence on movements including deep ecology, ecological feminism, bioregionalism, and critical postmodern ecology. Leading authorities examine, critique, and build on the insights of thinkers such as Hobbes, Heidegger, Bloch, Jonas, Mumford, Ehrlich, and Bookchin. Topics discussed include the claims and merits of anthropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric positions; rationality and its relationship to knowledge, technology, and social change; and what our conceptions of nature tell us about our vision of politics and society.
Author : Adam Rome
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429943556
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Genius of Earth Day written by Adam Rome and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political life. But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day 1970 helped to build a lasting eco-infrastructure—lobbying organizations, environmental beats at newspapers, environmental-studies programs, ecology sections in bookstores, community ecology centers. In The Genius of Earth Day, the prizewinning historian Adam Rome offers a compelling account of the rise of the environmental movement. Drawing on his experience as a journalist as well as his expertise as a scholar, he explains why the first Earth Day was so powerful, bringing one of the greatest political events of the twentieth century to life.
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568495873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Population Bomb written by Paul R. Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547542380
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Mr. Palomar written by Italo Calvino and published by HMH. This book was released on 1986-09-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things,” he believes, “that you can venture to seek what is underneath.” Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, or a topless sunbather, he tends to let his meditations stray from the present moment to the great beyond. And though he may fail as an objective spectator, he is the best of company. “Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku,” wrote Time Out. A play on a world fragmented by our individual perceptions, this inventive and irresistible novel encapsulates the life’s work of an artist of the highest order, “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).
